Archive for February, 2017

Hi there! It’s about time I did another song review, like I normally do. I’ve had this song stuck on my mind for the past week or so, which came out of nowhere – I haven’t listened to this song in a long time. The song I’m writing about today is called Slip To The Void by Alter Bridge off the album AB III (2010). I think you will notice I’ve thought of and listened to this song a lot. Here are the lyrics. Enjoy!

I can’t really put my finger on it, but there is just something about this song that is greatly satisfying to listen to. Myles Kennedy’s voice is amazing, the guitar riffs are heavy and sort of edgy, and the song just rocks out to lyrics that are actually pretty depressing and haunting. The intro is calm, with an eerie mood, introduced by a synth, and Kennedy’s voice almost whispering the imperative “Slip to the void, to the dark, to the fall…”. The calmness is not comforting, but more like a sense of ‘calm before the storm’. Moving on, the song introduces the strumming of a guitar and muffled sound of the bass, as Kennedy goes on with more warnings, and you can almost feel the guilt sneak up on you with “My God, what have you done? You don’t belong here”.
The song hits a break-through point as Myles goes off with his voice “Sever the ties, trip the wire, dig your hole…”, and you can see the full potential of the song. Kennedy really can do wonders with his voice, taking it down to almost a whisper and up to those high notes.
Harmonizing vocals in the chorus and bridge with Mark Tremonti makes the sound very full in volume, their voices really fit well together. In the bridge there is a split guitar solo as well, between the singing, which is quite good, but isn’t very long in duration, and it seems like the guitar riffs is more important in this song rather than the solo, which I don’t mind.
The song finishes the way it started, drums stopping as sudden as they had started, fading out the guitars, and takes it down to only the synth as it also fades out to a stop. I’ve listened to this song so many times this week alone, I really can’t count it, and still manage to get a creepy feeling in the intro, a feeling of guilt and shame by the lyrics, and a sense of satisfaction by the harmonizing chorus and awesome guitar riffs.

“Doubt is alive and you knowYou were once led to believeYou were young and so naiveBut now no longer”
(Slip To The Void – Alter Bridge)

Hey! It’s been a month since I last posted. I’ve thought a lot about writing something of finishing something I’ve already started, but I never got around to it. Now, I have a new idea! I “waste” a lot of time on a meme website called 9GAG. Right now, someone’s started a trend of making a list of “need to know” songs and putting their list on 9GAG. I thought I should hop on the train and make such a list of my own. The first one that started this trend (that I noticed, at least), had a rule not to include more than one song per artist/band, and so I wanted to do the same, but realized that it was too difficult for some bands, so I only tried to not include too many. I will just dive right into it, with no arrangement to the order in which I list the songs I feel you need to know. (of course this will be mainly rock/metal, since that’s my forte, but I might include some other songs as well, if I feel like you really need to know/listen to them).
I’ve made the list in Spotify, so you can go in and have a listen right away. Might get back to this post later and make a YouTube-playlist of it as well, but for now Spotify will have to do.

Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence / Down With The Sickness

Evanescence – Bring Me To Life / My Immortal

Paramore – Misery Business

Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit

Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare / Afterlife

Black Sabbath – Iron Man

AC/DC – Thunderstruck

Foo Fighers – The Best Of You

Bullet For My Valentine – Tears Don’t Fall

Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name

Slipknot – Psychosocial / Duality

Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire

Royal Blood – Better Stangers

Linkin Park – Numb / Faint

Machine Head – Darkness Within / Davidian

Korn – Thoughtless

Coldplay – Fix You

Imagine Dragons – Radioactive

Helloween – Mr. Torture

Halestorm – Love Bites (So Do I)

Ghost B.C. – Cirice

Dimmu Borgir – Gateways

Five Finger Death Punch – Coming Down / House Of The Rising Sun

Audioslave – Show Me How To Live

Soundgarden – Live To Rise

Drowning Pool – Bodies

The Cranberries – Zombie

Brandi Carlile – The Story

Deftones – Change (In The House Of Flies)

AWOLNATION – Sail

Johnny Cash – Hurt

Dream Theater – A Nightmare To Remember

Nomy – Cocaine

Radiohead – Creep

Tribal Ink – Refugee

Avantasia – The Scarecrow

The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris

Amy Lee – Lockdown

Ed Sheeran – I See Fire

System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B.

Volbeat – Still Counting

Alice Cooper – Poison

Metallica – Enter Sandman

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine

Breaking Benjamin – So Cold

Iron Maiden – Fear Of The Dark

Dio – Rainbow In The Dark / Holy Diver

Rammstein – Du Hast

Device/Lzzy Hale – Close My Eyes Forever

Lady Gaga – Til It Happens To You

Muse – Plug In Baby

Rise Against – Hero Of War

Chevelle – The Red

Thee Days Grace – I Hate Everything About You

Axel Rudi Pell – Glory Night

In Flames – Alias

My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade

Green Day – 21 Guns

Elton John – Candle In The Wind

There’s just a handful of these songs that I don’t know every single word to, but they still evoke something in me that makes me think everyone should hear them. These songs are iconic to me, representing the band, the genre and the time period they were produced in perfectly. A few of these are covers, but I included them because they are so good that I feel they both do justice to the original artists and the songs, in addition to the covers being iconic themselves.

Links to the two lists that I found already, there are some very good songs in there, and some I have yet to check out.

Am I missing something obvious to you? Would you perhaps replace the song I’ve chosen by a(n) artist/band? What would be your most iconic/”need to know”-songs? Please let me know in the comment section.

“So paint it black and take it backLets shout it loud and clearDo you fight it to the endWe hear the call toTo carry onWe’ll carry on”
(Welcome To The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance)